Ramblings of an Emergency Physician in Texas

Medblog Grand Rounds 6:46 is up!

I once worked with a psychiatrist who called listening the most underrated skill, and his words are truer now than ever. Listening is hard work; too often, we just wait for our turn to talk. And that’s if we’re being polite. We don’t talk to each other; we talk at each other or sometimes over each other in the loudest voice possible.

Comments

I concur. The hardest part of being an effective investigator is listening to witnesses and suspects. I got very good at it but, according to my wife, that skill never transitioned out of the interview room!!!